Well I just like to add that I have seen no evidence of gear bugging, I have seen a castle and a village now have no peasent gear for their defence. I am going to have to suggest that the rumours I hear is that chadz has been messing about with the Strat map lately, I personally witnessed the map fast forward 12 hours last Sunday. I would suggest that chadz has removed default peasent gear. If the apparent gear bugging is about this then I would strongly suggest that it hasn't been gear bugged.
The accusations against Acre are baseless from what I've seen. What mechanic would allow them to attack, and make it so the defenders have no gear? If you "gear bug" someone, you dump so many different types of equipment into the fief that they can't use all the lower gear in the list (siege weapons, projectiles, etc).
If Acre was dumping gear into the fiefs before attacking, wouldn't the defenders have gear?
Is the more likely scenario that something is bugged with defenders getting peasant gear?
So in retaliation against Acre for attacking fiefs that have no gear, you vote ban them from battles so that you can win?
Am I missing something? If so, be a dear and fill me in, because the last 5 pages were all bullshit with no substance. I apologize for not being active on forums the last couple years, and being a shining example of quality posts.